I suspect the "Go! Fight! Win" cookie cake is some small homage to a scene in "The Incredibles", where Edna Mode is standing on the table and tells Helen (aka Elastigirl), "Well, you know where he is. Go! Fight! Win! [with her arms up in a feisty way] And call me when you get back, darling, I enjoy our visits."

At least that's what popped into my head when I saw that cake. Possibly because I have three small boys and we watch "The Incredibles" waaaayyyy too much.

I just quit my Cake Decorating instructing job. I am a decorator with over 30 years experience. I was stunned to find out that they are replacing me with a girl that has no baking or cake decorating experience and has only recently taken a beginners course herself. So..... the future of cake decorators is sufficiently secure ( ....heavy sigh!...)

Far be it from me to correct Jen! Not only is it unnecessary (so many others will volunteer, doncha know) but as much delight and humor as she gives my life, it would also be ungracious. Additionally, the (usually) self-imposed restriction of writing my comments in haiku here have created quite a bit of mirth in my family. The phrase, "But hey, nice balloons" is well on its way to becoming a catchphrase. I couldn't ask for a better venue in which to romp creative, albeit in a minute way.

Jen, as evident by your talent on sweet baby James' cake and on the Spaceship Earth, I have no doubt that the wedding cake you've been laboring over will be the bride's dream.

I'm glad you gave me a hint as to what the first cake said. Even with that hint "another" took me almost a minute to figure out.

The "two old mother's" definitely made my day! A misunderstanding and a misplaced apostrophe - can it get any wreckier than that? Oh yeah, with crooked, ill-space lettering and indecipherable images (are those reverse Christmas trees?).

And does anyone else think the F in the Go! Fight! Win! cookie looks a little too close to an L? Honestly, at first look I thought it said Go! Light! Win! and I couldn't decide if mom needed to turn on a lamp or have a cigarette. I'm betting the latter.

you know that "old mother's cake" seems to be a cry for an entry to cake Wrecks? do you think that maybe just maybe bakers are now striving to be submitted? you know that any publicity is good publicity?

Oh my god! If you want sprinkles, we've got sprinkles! That purse cake reminds me of the tv commercial where the couple dumps a whole container of sprinkles on the ice cream counter. (can't remember what it's a commercial for, just remember the sprinkles).

I'll bet that scarf/snake/tube sock monstrosity came from my neck of the woods--it's practically a legal requirement here in Gainesville that cakes be decorated in the University of Florida's unfortunate choice of school colors, garish bright orange and fluorescent sky blue. (Visit any supermarket bakery here during football season and your eyeballs will explode.)

There really can't be any other logical explanation for that choice of colors!

I third that the "F" in Fight looked more like an "L". I was thinking that was a bit insulting -Hey! Happy Mother's Day now go lose some weight...which means no cookie for you! Muwahahahah. That's just mean.

Nicely done. I sure a mother would love this. But there is nothing more rewarding to be giving to your mother on this day is the love and giving back the thanks to what she had done to us since birth. Happy Mothers day to all moms out there. Specially my mother.:)

I think most moms would be reminded of your childhood when you made crooked and mispelled cards out of construction paper and macaroni if you bought one of these for her. Maybe that was the feel wreckerators were going for.

WV: ractin--Personally, I would be ractin with retching if presented with one of these.

Nicely done. I sure a mother would love this. But there is nothing more rewarding to be giving to your mother on this day is the love and giving back the thanks to what she had done to us since birth. Happy Mothers day to all moms out there. Specially my mother.:)

Replying:Yes, sadly for many it IS what our mother did TO us rather than what they did FOR us.

WV: Hareco- I think I hareco...I think I hareco...I think I har...I think I h....

I SO want that 'Mother of the Universe' cake for Mother's Day!! Hopefully my husband or son are reading... hahaha... get me that cake! I mean, just lookit all that nasty airbrushing rainbow puke with matching sprinkles!! That makes me so happy! LOL!!! But I wonder if it'd be safe to eat that when pregnant???? errrr!

maybe we can get a letter writing campaign to outlaw the cup cake cake!!!! Years ago they passed a law to make it illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your pocket.. CCC are far more dangerous than concealed ice cream!!

Wow! Lookit the sprinkles on that purse cake. I can just hear someone yelling "I've run out of sprinkles! Someone crack open another bulk sprinkle bucket!" And is that really a pipe-cleaner handle? Really? ahahahaha

Hee. Thanks for the credit (blame?), Nakia. Haha. I had tried to comment quickly to point out the typo before too many saw it. It drives me crazy when people are all snotty about Jen making a typo. We all make mistakes, even wonderful proofreading husbands!Sorry you had to take the fall for me, Haiku Joy! I also love reading your posts. Very nice. I had taken a break from reading comments when they went through a clueless pahse a while back. So your contributuons were a nice surprise and I look forward to them.

Back to the cakes! Omg. That universe one would make a funky t-shirt, but I wouldn't want to eat it. The scarves and the muppet bird lips leave me speechless!!

Those are hugs. What you do to send a hug to someone who you can't hug right NOW is to lie down on a piece of long paper, and trace around your arms, drawing your hands at the ends, and joining it up in the middle (where your body would be.)

You cut this out and send it to them, with the instruction to wrap it around themselves for a hug from you, or to keep it for the same reason. They'll always have a hug from you, sort of thing. It's a sappy child thing.

So these cakes are 'hugs' from someone to someone else. Even though you can't wrap them around yourself, the thought it there.

That was a shock cut, scrolling down from flowery-written-on wrecks to the "patently bizarre" birdie-faced-upside-down-lips cake. The shock cut worked.

[Stops. *Snort.* Laughs so hard that eyes close & she can't see the keyboard] Ahem, the objects on the old mother cake at first glance appeared to be upside-down bunches of grapes, but I figured it out: they're squiggles.

I thought of that "hug" thing when I saw the Giant Banner Tapeworm Sweatsock Bear-Arms--but they weren't connected, and furthermore who on earth could hug themselves with cake? (Unless they owned a dry-cleaning business...)

Oh Alex, it was said with perhaps a hint of blame to it ;). But I see you meant it in a lighthearted way and not a snotty one. I too have been frustrated by comments lately. But there are still plenty great ones who make it worth wading through the aggravating stuff :D.

I had a wreck "featured" a while back and in my flurry of finals and school I didn't realize it had gone up. So commenting on a post dated back in December (http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2008/12/wedding-wrecks.html) wouldn't get me anywhere, so I thought I'd just explain a bit about the wreck here.

I'm "Claire G." so the middle cake is "mine". Firstly, it was a bridal shower cake, not a wedding cake (so no, no shotgun wedding because you saw paper napkins). My best friends new initials were to be M.K.S. so that was the point of the cake for the shower (so no, I didn't put Martha Stewart's initials on a cake, and no neither I nor the cake are fake). The middle initial was indeed supposed to be larger because its a last name.

ALSO, I could not have been more detailed in my e-mails back and forth with the baker. I asked over and over if she could replicate this. Over and over her reply was "of course". I was planning a shower from 1200 miles away so seeing her portfolio was out of the question. Her online work wasn't bad, but I thought what I was asking for was so simple (I even linked her to the directions for that cake!)that there could be no issues.

I was too busy to pick up the cake myself so I sent my grandparents the night before with a check. They didn't tell me this until I unpacked the leaning tower of pisa the next morning, but when my grandpa got to the bakers house she had them come late at night and wouldn't let them into house even to see it. Thank God I didn't go, because we would have had a disaster of an argument on our hands.

Of course my check was cashed by her IMMEDIATELY. I figured what was done was done and even though I only wanted a beautiful, unique cake for my best friend, sometimes the best of intentions aren't good enough realized.

The upside was it was a very good tasting cake. It was lemon which was not asked for or even mentioned in our convos, but hey, I don't hate lemon and neither did most of our guests.

I was searching for a deal, and yeah, I guess I "got what I paid for". But I really did try.

(sorry to place this in a totally unrelated post, but hey, I had to say something somewhere. forgive me)

Sometimes I know exactly how the decorators must feel. You get this great idea in your head, know just how you want it to look - 'Yeah, a centerpiece of roses with some softly waving scrolls framing it' - and you go for it. Only the execution doesn't work like you saw it in your head....but now you've gotta put it out there on the shelves because you need t fill them.

I've had a few things turn out like that. Our senior year Homecoming float is one of the biggies.

The really sad thing is the decorated mother's day cookie...i saw the same "decoration" on two different cookies at two different cookie sellers(to be left unnamed to protect the innocent) Both had the crazy stickfigure with the triangle dress as "mom" on the front. And the cookie booths were in the same mall!

LOL @ the grandmother's cake. Reminds me of my 16th birthday cake, my best friend and I celebrated together since her birthday is only 2 weeks before mine. It was supposed to say "Happy Birthday Rachel and Carson" but instead it said "Happy Birthday Rachel Carson". Apparently they thought we were the writer who died however long ago. D'oh!

If I saw that head cake in the store, I would have to buy it. Then I would have to throw a party so that all my friends could come over and laugh with me. I am really serious. I keep it around until it started to go bad just so it could give me a good laugh when I looked at it.

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